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Today was some math stuff for you whiny not-wanna-RPN bastards :)
1 + 2
= 3
check
2 – 5
= -3
check
1 + 2 + 10
= 13
check
5 * -3
= -15
check
SQRT(9)
= 3
check
(50 + 20) * 11 * ((2 * 100) – 20) / (100 * 1000)
= 1.386
check
((sqrt(3000000)/2)+707)*81/100
= 1274.150577
check
haven't added the substitution system into this yet (the RPN has it so it'll be easy to do) – but at least it's evaluating "normal" math stuff for now.
I have no idea if I'll actually ever play the games, but I have them at least.
Bought a bunch of stuff to help organize house stuff a bit better (my other hobby involves making stupid stuff out of wood and metal and melting metals and powder coating etc… and over the last year i picked up a bunch a fair amount of tools and materials. needs organization stuffs).
might work on stuff here at work, we'll see.
Re-edited older posts to point links to correct stuff, as far as i know.
If a link is dead and it's unfy.org/something … try making it unfy.org/misc/something or unfy.org/misc/lys/something
On a side note, picked up ps2 versions of ROTK 7 and 9 for $3 total today. Heh.
The grandma Athens / Istanbul is fine for a start but is quite limited :).
Get Lubeck invested to offer silver. Get Madeira (off coast of west africa) invested to offer gold. Much more insane profits. Maybe 4 or 5 trips back and forth and you got more than enough money to beat the game undoubtedly.
As far as Uncharted Waters in general and being 'open ended' and all of that. Yeah, it is. But UW isn't really about questing. Well, not really. It's basically a stat progression / trading sim kind of thing. The idea is to make money to get better ships so you can make more money, etc. Questing – outside of requests of the king you don't have to do ANY questing technically. But the game does offer a way for you to quest for stuff at random (or UWNW – just go ask for a quest at guild).
And as far as the quests themselves – the game does offer constant hints about how to accomplish your current 'quest' so that's not so blind (although 'go find and kill so and so' and 'go find mysterious item X' are less exacting in their help).
Side facets of the game would be exploring (which is kinda stupid – fire up google maps / earth, look at a globe. heh) – combat stuffs (mostly optional), "world domination", "world chaos" (same as domination but if you're a pirate so no ports are loyal to any country), wooing every barmaid, and standard 'challenge' things (such as smaller or fewer ships etc).
UWNW has a combat mechanic is that is infuriatingly stupid (duels). Random b.s.
I find the game typically soothing to play. Although I always get annoyed after spending about a week on it because that was a week of play time I could have been constructive (see the rotk2 remake), or playing a *new* game heh.
Anyhoo, beat UW1-genesis last night. Combat was frightening. Sinking any ship in a single cannon attack, disabling any ship just by attacking it (crew count/combat), etc. Hell, I had at least two fights where so and so would challenge me on a new screen (enemy ships can teleport however they want, when the game thinks its time to attack you, they spawn on right on top of you). Anyhoo – they initiate combat, their flag ship is the first to attack. It does a boarding/crew combat attack on me and instantly dies. Battle over.
I really should get back to DW2 or something. I just don't wanna :(. Grinding to max levels just for the sake of doing it is NEVER fun (even the last bits of "world domination" of UW is boring).
But I'm really curious what a rough percentage of end boss run attempts end up succeeding at max levels in the game (given that it has the air of being one of the hardest rpg's).
Stuff that does or doesn't need net is a bit … weird.
I'm used to having *something* going on in the background (usually someone's stream on twitch or something) while working on things heh. Also used to having the ability to randomly talk about other shit while working on it (ie: multitask).
I've got an older 8gb thumb drive I use for transfering stuff to/from work all the time lately heh. Also got a USB 2.5" enclosure with 300gb drive (drive was original before moving netbook to ssd). I'm gonna have to start to make use of the enclosure – have plenty of twitch archives from different players i've downloaded that are on the larger side (to watch at home while falling asleep usually heh).
I've also started the great-fall-cleaning at home. After that's done, I'll be much more inclined to work on things. Messy house sucks.
Looks like Willbloodworth undertook a DoaE challenge:
http://www.twitch.tv/willbloodworth/
"Will, what the hell are you doing here?"
Great question, Will! Fresh off my Dragon Warrior 2 Solo Prince of Midenhall run, I'm following it up with another Playthrough From Hell™ (patent pending) – Destiny of an Emperor for NES, with the following (crippling) handicaps:
Lowest possible level run – no non-essential fights – should land me at L39 or L40
No purchasing gear. May only use equipment found in chests or hidden in strongholds/cities/caves
Only purchases of Resurrects, Gullwings and Smoke Pots allowed (for smoother navigation/minimal running from fights)
No Power Pills/Elixirs purchased (ONLY usable if found)
No recruiting Pang Tong (this means Shu will SUCK)
No An Sha (this means everything AFTER Shu will suck even worse)
Must execute Yuan Shu
Cannot fight the Pirate Force in Wu
Allowed to recruit Han Zhong in random fight with one Rebel Force (this SHOULD mean less XP than fighting front gate)
Allowed to recruit Lu Bu and fight random encounter Lu Bu later on
Allowed to get commissioned swords
Game will be played on a RetroDuo console – no emulation = no save states = reset hell, so be prepared!
(Most inspiration for these handicaps thanks to http://kongming.net/doae/challenge )
Oh, and for myself – I've not continued pushing DW2 to max level yet for doing malroth runs to see how the percentage of attempts that get completed at max level (consider it SCIENCE!%!@%). Still plan on it, just haven't.
Have been playing a bit of Uncharted Waters (the original) on Genesis. Curious how different it might be etc. Nope, it's about the same. That 60K money limit really sucks in the original heh.
Also, playing this round a bit differently than normal. Original latina -> nao x 3 -> galleon -> heavy galleon x 5. I picked the wrong port to max out on shipyard industry (venice, was doing venice <> pisa grandmother route for porcelain / artwork). Should have picked something further away the enemy AI wouldn't have cared about.
Did get into one fight that had my ass handed to me, 3 of my ships gone (the nao's coincidentally). Didn't reset, lost some good mates, and went on about my business.
Anyhoo, configured the HG's up for battle 180 max crew, 100 guns. Did only the $16k figurehead instead of more expensive one. Since ya can't moar ships or convert them on the fly … and that you have the on-hand money limit… might as well. Typically sail around with 100-120 crew on each ship, 140-180 on flagship. Just outright wrecks anything that attacks me (or passes nearby and I was bored). Think I've prolly been through 50-75 fights ? Main character can sink an enemy galleon in a single volley (frightening).
I've not counted total ports converted, but went ahead and did 'world domination' stuff as well that's common to do in UW2. Start out in Lisbon with 40-50k gold, and 1000-1500 firearms cargo, Sail around Africa – invest, sell as needed, etc. I'm sure I'm missing some port(s) in the spice islands and perhaps a few on north/south america. Don't think I care though heh.
Something that's been unusual. I've only done maybe 1 or 2 errands for shop keeps. The rest have been king related. I've basically been sinking so many enemy / pirate fleets that fame has been sky rocketing on it's own (hey, its not my fault they come to the slaughter). Anyhoo – I'm not sure if the king's requests are related to the last thing you do that gains you fame or what – but his request have been far different than what I'm used to. Normally it's "go get some commodity like coral". I've had only *one* of those. The rest have been "go blow some stuff up", 2 letter deliveries, and I'm on my THIRD "go find some rare trinket" quest. THREE trinket quest in one game – WTF ?
First trinket was in the artic ocean (above russia / siberia) … grrr. And as typical – go to India, go to Istanbul, go to China to get the map. Thankfully, I've gotten the sailing levels to be able to handle b.s. conditions the game throws at ya (especially in unyieldy heavy galleons). Second trinket was Algiers, East Africa, New World, China-pirate-fight. Third trinket was East Africa, South America, and now gotta head back to East Africa to find out if it's a map or fight.
Something unusual – while doing the New World bit of world domination between first and second trinket quest – I apparently hit 50k fame or something and was getting an occasional message in pub's about king wanting to see me or something happened in the palace etc (was thinking yay, end game!). Go back – nope king doesn't want me and princess is fine. Think I was only a Marquis at the time ? Not even a count etc ?
Having re-played 1 to near it's conclusion, I will say – sailing in 2 seems to go a lot faster (going around africa or north sea or just europe to new world). Battles in 2 are a bit harder since ya don't control all of your fleet (only hint at them).
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btw, forgot to say: congrats willbloodworth!
I forgot how far i got into Cao Cao edition (or part 2 or whatever) before giving up.
There's a chance i might have mentioned it somewhere here in the board, dunno. I know I got beyond 'yuan shu' and was at the very least at the jingzhou/yuan shao branch. I believe I made it through Yuan Shao and was in JZ attempting to beat the liu bei stuffs ? dunno.
Every great once in a while I debate firing it up again to see what i can do… but… no. i always remember the shudder… erf.
first on non jp cart, prolly :).
see also (from 2006):
Field recruit-able generals only shouldn't be too bad and might be fun. Two notable exceptions to this would be xu zhe and zhu ge liang. due to plot requirements. make sure party is full for zhuge and you can skip him. XZ – just don't use him ? I assume pang tong is allowed since he's kind of field recruited ? same with lu bu ? but no wei yan, ma chao, etc.
I *think* the required-fights-only is plausible. Not entirely sure.
There's a Song-brothers-always-in-active-party challenge too ? effectively cuts your party to only 3 members instead of 5.
Or better yet – grab an emulator and go try out one of the mods.
Yuan Shao, Rise of Lu Bu, Flames of Wu are all very excellent.
If you want insane difficult, Cao Cao edition mod.
For something completely different, an emulator and the translated DoaE2 rom.
willbloodworth: followed :P
Also, I dunno if it's indeed the 'first ever' recording of it.
Youtube has something, but it might be TAS-ish.
And no, DW2 is nothing like earthbound. At all.
I still haven't gone about doing trials of how many attempts succeed / fail at hargon castle runs with a maxed out party. let alone how many succeed / fail with the sub bosses alive or dead.
Yeah, getting swallowed again heh.
There's a page 4 here, but the forum doesn't seem to know about it :P
